Hello,

Here goes my suggestion: I think it would be useful if a description field was added to each stored database, so it would be possible to find the appropiate backup, specially useful when the backup you're looking for was made some time ago and you do not remember the exact date.

Regards and keep on with this great module.

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ronan’s picture

ronan commented

Not really sure how feasible this would be since the backups are just files. I don't really have any good way to store meta-data about each one. You can set the name of the files though which can serve as a very short note about what the backup is.

c-c-m’s picture

c-c-m commented

I meant a description only in the admin interface. I know you can use tokens to name a certain file, but sometimes you need a longer description, in order to keep the name short.

ronan’s picture

ronan commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I don't want to add a database table to track backups but there's a ticket to allow longer filenames somewhere in here which may help allow for descriptions

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jeffschuler
Location Boulder, Colorado
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Title: Proposal: add a description field per database » Proposal: add a description field per backup

#682574: Filename 50 char length limit is the issue that ronan's referring to for extending filename length.

#1226848: Allow custom naming of files in quick backup is a semi-duplicate of this issue, also asking for a description field -- or for the ability to edit the filename on the quick backup form.

I'm changing the title of this issue for findability. It's not really asking for per-database descriptions, but rather, per-backup.

FWIW, such a feature would be really useful to me, too: I constantly find myself wanting metadata on backups. I enter this info manually in text files... Maybe this could be an optional sub-module, so the base functionality wouldn't need to add a db table...?